Happy Thanksgiving & Crafty Goings On!

First I wanted to wish everyone the most Blessed Thanksgiving of All!  I pray that everyone will have a moment to sit and relax and enjoy all the wonderful things that the LORD has blessed you with.  I am so grateful for a great many things and the most important blessing of all is my Salvation!! I praise the LORD for giving me a new life in HIM and a Beautiful family to share my life with. 

I have a few things to share today before I am off to start my Thanksgiving festivities...Cleaning, Cooking and Lot's of tasting!

This Week at Crafting by Designs I hosted the challenge.  The theme was love and I needed to come up with a sample that would include the word LOVE and or a heart.  Here's my sample:

My Love tag with a hint of Christmas, tag is green & white and the house has textured snow paint on the roof.

Next I have few kraft bags that I decorated using of course the MME paper that I adore so much!

Here is a pic of a painter's tray I am altering.  This is such a fun project and I don't know when I'll be finished with it, there is always more embellishing to be done, but I want to make sure I leave room for pictures.

Lastly I got a new Tim Holtz die and it is to die for!! For some reason I am really into seamstress body forms and I think you can do so much with these cuts...If you haven't seen it yet check this out?

Purchased at Joann's it was reg $19.99 they had 40% off dies and I used the Michael's 20% off disc on entire purchase. Woo Hoo!!!

Well that's it for now Ciao Bella's and have a very blessed Thanksgiving!!!

Altered Creations

Hello Crafty Folks!!

 One thing I really enjoy doing is taking ordinary things and altering them.  There are so many gorgeous designer papers out there to make it happen.  If you've followed my blog you've seen items that I've done like altering clipboard or clothespins, jars and I also really enjoy covering paper mache.  Today I want to show you one of the orders I'm working on for one of my Fav customers.  She gave me 8 composition books and 3 binders and wanted me to "do what I do" and so here is some of what I did and I'm totally night finished:

Plain ordinary 1 inch binder

Tada!! 

Ordinary composition book!

I'm not great at photography and my backgrounds lack some creativity but hopefully this will spark a little inspiration and you might want to try to.  I've also used the front of cereal boxes and the kids really like it.

Well that's it for now & Blessings to All

Inspired to Create

Hello Everyone Just checking in with some more crafty inspirations.  Now that the Christmas season is quickly approaching it's time to get into the spirit and get busy.  It's time to try some new dessert recipes...some new crafty techniques...and especially for us crafters Michael's and  Hobby Lobby are going all out on their Sales on crafts.  I am enjoying getting new crafty products.  I bought some Snow-Tex by DecoArt the other day and am enjoying it immensely!  This is like a textured type paint that simulates snow when it dries, it is a super cool product to try. Today I bought a Glistening Snow Writer also by DecoArt, the label says Create Dimensional Glittery Effects, can't wait to try this.  At Hobby Lobby all of their Christmas Craft Supplies are 50%  I think it was worth a try.

Today I'd like to share with you a few things that I created for my little shop in Alamo Craft Co. 
First I create this card using My Minds Eye Lost & Found I & II.  I believe the possibilities are endless with this paper.  I also created the scalloped flower using my Tim Holtz die.

  

Next I created these cutesy bags with scraps left over from my MME stash and I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with them.  I knew I didn't want to fill them with candy so I figured I'd make some tags, also using scraps.  Actually this was bit of a challenge because when you're designing multiples of smallish projects the detail work can be a bit tedious, but the end results were pretty much worth it, I think.

Here's the decorated bags without matching tags.  I'll be working on these later

This is what the bag looks like filled with deco tags.  Three tags per bag.

 I used a combination of Cricut ( Christmas Cheer - trees, Bday Bash - banner) Tim Holtz die for the flowers and snowflake punch.

Hey that's it for now hope you'll give some of these projects a try.

Blessings and Until Next Time

" Create in me a clean heart, O GOD; 

and renew a right spirit within "

Psalm 51:10

Crafting By Designs Scraps Challenge

Hello Crafty Folks,
Crafting by Designs just had a DT challenge and we were challenged to make a card using scraps...Did they say SCRAPS!!!  Look, I am the Scrapmaster and my scraps are categorized by Designer Paper and I am ready to roll.  I went to my new MME Lost&Found II stash and pulled out some gorgeous scraps and created this cutesy card.  I also used scraps to make my flowers using my 3D Sizzix Die, Spellbinders, and a cutesy acrylic stamp also from the Lost&Found... Here's my card..."All Scraps".

That's it for now...Have a Blessed Monday  :0)

Update for Saturday

Hello Everyone!!

Just wanted to post a little cutie...I totally cased this from a Somerset mag from several winters ago and have been making them every since.  Pretty fun idea!  Whenever I case something, I do my best to alter it and make it my owns, so this year I purchased some Snow paint from Michael's and I added it to the top of the cap and sprinkled a little diamond dust on top.  It's hard to see from the pic but at lease you can see my little " Genuine Snowman." 

Later & Have a Blessed Sunday!

Getting In The Spirit

Hello Everyone!!  It took me quite awhile to get back here but I have been so busy it's amazing.  I don't see how other crafty bloggers do it.  They are able to keep up with their blogs consistently.  I had a good run there for awhile but then life happens!  Well, one of the most daunting things happened which really hampered my posting was loosing my I-phone.  It's sounds ridiculous but I had everything on that phone, it was like a mobile personal library of congress for me.  All of my pics for my postings and it was so easy to blog with that thing. I think I relied on it so much that when it was lost/stolen (because someone took it, started using it and didn't return i) it took away my drive to post and I suppose that's not a good thing.  I have probably lost lots of followers over this and well I guess I sorta deserve it.  Well for now I'm going to try to pick up the pieces and move on.

I am going to share one of my new creations for Christmas ( my FAV holiday) and one project that I am teaching:

I used 1x3 inch strips of the MME Lost & Found, adhere strips to a paper mache cone shape with Modgepodge, sprinkled on diamond dust for a little twinkle.

Next for one of my classes we made this neat Christmas Tree wood album by Kaiser Kraft and here are the pics:

 I truly enjoyed teaching this class!!

Well that's it for now I pray that you all have been Happy Crafters and I'll post again SOON!!  Blessings as Always :0)

Hello Everyone